Stitched Via's Disappearing Act

[Cutter]

I placed stitched gnd via's on my board by selecting the gnd net, right clicking, then selecting 'add via'. What I discovered today is that these via's are glued upon placement. I unglued all the via's so I could revise on the fly, as I am overwhelmed with design changes.
This is bad.
With those via's unglued, when I try to move or delete a stitched gnd via, or delete ANY trace segment or via of ANY net, all those stitched gnd via's disappear. Poof.

Can anyone tell me why this is? I ate up 1 hour of my time solving this.

[Cutter]

Ok, I think I have it...

I tried individually unglueing and moving...that particular via simply disappears upon position placement.

I did find a way, however. Select the via, cntrl E, a pop-up window appears with a checkbox "allow move of glued object and don't ask me again". Check that and it allows all future moves with no disappearing act.

[phillipr]

There is a line you can add to your ini file that is supposed to fix this problem.
I'm sure someone on this list can tell you what it is.

[varora]

Add this line to powerPCB.ini file
under [ECO Preferences]

[ECO Preferences]
KeepStitchingVias=1

[Cutter]

Thank you!

I will pass this on to other designers I know that despise using 'unsupported' stitched via's.

Regards

[Cutter]

I broke my cardinal rule here. I spoke before I checked.

My powerPCB.ini file has the keepstitchingvias=1 already.
I tried =0 and had the same results.

If I select and query the via, unglue, then move, it disappears at drop.

If I select the via, cntrlE, check the 'Always allow move and don't ask me again' box in the 'Glued Via(s) detected. Proceed anyway?' popup window, all is well.

[varora]

Make sure KeepStitchingVias=1 is typed exactly this way.

Why are you ungluing vias in the first place?

[Cutter]

When placing stitched via's by:
select net
add via
the via(s) are automatically glued upon dropping.
I've had to move some of these via's because of ECO's rolling in.